The Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, and smart factory applications are estimated to drive substantial productivity improvements, energy savings, and gains in labor efficiency over the next few years. Enabling those outcomes requires comprehensive infrastructure solutions on which to run the necessary smart manufacturing applications.
To empower customers and partners to unlock this massive opportunity and deliver a scalable, repeatable foundation for smart factory installations and Industry 4.0 solutions, Dell Technologies—a leader in scalable, enterprise-grade hardware infrastructure—has partnered with PTC—a world leader in IIoT software applications.
With a broad solution portfolio implemented in the latest smart factory use cases, the Dell Technologies and PTC partnership includes:
- End-to-end enterprise operational intelligence
- Intelligent asset optimization
- Predictive maintenance
- Enterprise-grade capabilities and scale for factory applications
Digital manufacturing solutions from Dell Technologies and PTC provide industrial customers with the industry-leading solution to reduce manufacturing costs, reduce factory downtime, improve revenue, and increase asset efficiency. From this platform, customers gain the power and ability to efficiently scale globally, using an approach that is secure, manageable, and reliable.
This guide introduces validated design considerations and planning guidance for the implementation of a Dell Validated Design for Manufacturing Edge with PTC smart factory solution. Guidance includes software, hardware, and security considerations. In addition, this guide provides performance and scale considerations to help guide customers, partners, and system integrators with planning for application consolidation of other industrial automation applications used throughout the manufacturing environment.